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"My book was written to emphasize general economic principles, and the penalties of ignoring them-not the harm done by any specific piece of legislation. While my illustrations were based mainly on American experience..."
"What struck Jim Wier first, as he entered the Wal-Mart vice president's office, was the seating area for visitors. 'It was just some lawn chairs that some other peddler had left behind as samples.'"
"In the early 1930s [Vannevar Bush] first wrote of a device he called the "Memex," which he envisioned as looking like a desk with two touch screen graphical displays, a keyboard, and a scanner attached to it."